William Goldman Quotes
Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.
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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.
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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
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Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.
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If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to passion between being successful and being a philanthropist.
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Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.
